Recommend Some Chilled Out 80s/80s Styled Evening Drive Songs

Something to play as you're cruising along the coast as the sun slowly sets, GTA Vice City style. Or as you're driving in the city under street lights after the sun has set and the streets are quiet and clearing out.

 

'Moving In Stereo' - Cars.

'Take My Breath Away' - Berlin

'Bring on the Dancing Horses' - Echo & the Bunnymen'

'Haunted When The Minutes Drag' - Love And Rockets'

'Planet Claire' - B52's

'I Go To Sleep' - Pretenders

 

Silk Degrees - Boz Scaggs.

Specially if it is the left coast.

 

"When Your Heart Is Weak"- Cock Robin

"I'll Be Over You"- Toto

"Taken In"- Mike & The Mechanics

"Take Me To Heart"- Quarterflash

"Emotion In Motion"- Ric Ocasek

"Painted Desert"- Pat Benatar

"Desert Moon"- Dennis DeYoung

"Big Log"- Robert Plant

To name a few!
Annette

 

Under The Milky Way - The Church

 

College - A Real Hero


all you need.

 

Yes, something like Electric Youth's Right Back to You or Cadillac's Past Midnight!

 

'Big Log' is an excellent choice, wish I'd said it first. Kudos, Annette!

 

Godley & Creme - Cry (Extended Version)
Wang Chung - To Live In Die In L.A.
Tears for Fears - Pale Shelter, Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Lords of the New Church - Dance With Me (Extended Version)
Jan Hammer - Crockett's Theme

 

"Moments In Love" - Art Of Noise

 

Peter Murphy - All Night Long
Love & Rockets - It's All In My Mind
INXS - Falling Down The Mountain
Midnight Oil - The Dead Heart - great highway driving song
Roxy Music - Avalon

 

Church Not Made With Hands - The Waterboys

Driving Away From Home - It's Immaterial

 

Dire Straits - So Far Away
Alan Parsons Project - Eye In The Sky & Old And Wise
Billy Thorpe - We Were Watching You
Prince - 1999 & Little Red Corvette
Def Leppard - Love And Affection

 

+1 on these two songs

"To Live And Die In L.A." (especially the way it was used in the movie of the same title) definitely evokes driving at sundown while "Cry" had a great repurposing in a Miami Vice episode (with Ted Nugent as a guest star )

"Cry" in Miami Vice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eBLveddSfM&feature=fvst

 

First song that came to mind was Roxy Music - More Than This.

 

It's off by a few years but this works quite well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t74BiBmBizk

 

Ladies Night In Buffalo DLR

 

The Beloved - Happiness

 

China Crisis: Wishful Thinking

 

I love to cruise around gets vice city style too! Here are some recommendations: Double-Captain of Her Heart, Mr Mister-Broken Wings, Starship-Sara, Breathe-Hands to Heaven, Hue and Cry-Remote, Level 42-Something About You, Swing Out Sister-Breakout, Human League-Human, Boy Meets Girl-Waiting for a Star to Fall, ABC-Ocean Blue

 

A couple more from "Miami Vice":

"You Belong to the City"
"In The Air Tonight"

 

Chilled out 80s: IMO, nothing beats the first 2 Blue Nile albums.

Also, you're on safe and excellent ground with virtually anything by Prefab Sprout or China Crisis. A good chunk of Style Council's output is fairly chill as well. Also, select songs by the Blow Monkeys. IMO, China Crisis and Blow Monkeys (who get little to no attention here) would find many fans on this forum, considering the love of Steely Dan and all the Paul Weller incarnations.

The last Destroyer album, Kaput, is very retro 80s slick and relaxed.

 

The Cure - "Just Like Heaven" / "Catch"
Marty Balin - "Hearts"
Eurythmics - "Here Comes the Rain Again" / "Who's That Girl"
Howard Jones - "No One Is to Blame"
Men at Work - "Overkill"
Ultravox - "Reap the Wild Wind"
Real Life - "Send Me An Angel"
INXS - "Don't Change" / "Never Tear Us Apart"
Little River Band - "Take it Easy on Me"
Hall and Oates - "I Can't Go For That"

 

And another:

Par Avion - Mike & The Mechanics (great song you'll want to crank up in the car)

Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House
Forever Live and Die - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD)
Life in a Northern Town - The Dream Academy
Ghost Town - Cheap Trick
Broken Dreams - Johhny Hates Jazz

 

I love China Crisis!